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...scheduled to inoculate his first healthy volunteers in New York with the U.S. version of the vaccine this week. Before he can begin testing a vaccine in China, however, Ho needs to know more about the virus strains circulating there. To protect against HIV, any experimental AIDS vaccine must be designed to match the rapidly changing strains moving through a population. Ho needs access to the blood of a lot of HIV-positive patients, so when he started looking for a place in China to conduct his trials, he turned first to Yunnan, a province with one of the greatest...
...That fear is well founded. Adding to the stigma surrounding AIDS in these villages is the role that local leaders played in the blood-buying program. "Many government officials made a lot of money," says the patient advocate who calls himself Ke'Er. To protect themselves, they wrapped their villages in the cloak of state secrecy, effectively sealing off AIDS patients from foreign aid groups as well as health officials from other provinces. AIDS-care centers still won't put the word AIDS on their doors, opting instead for such intentionally obscure labels as "home garden...
...that's not true for everyone, and researchers would love to identify the psychological quirks that protect some people and sabotage others. Small studies suggest that the immune systems of optimistic law students are more robust than those of pessimists and that worrywarts suffer deeper hits to their immune system after a traumatic event than do nonworriers...
...President already shelved an overhaul plan by former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft after Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld objected to it. And the report put off until after the November election any examination of whether the faulty intelligence came about because of White House pressure. "It's designed to protect the Administration and put all the blame on the intelligence community," said a senior Republican. Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has said he wants to give the next CIA director "true control over intelligence personnel and budgets all across the government." A top Democratic campaign official told TIME that...
...letter to the media exposing the Chinese government's cover-up of the SARS outbreak in April 2003, he told TIME he doubted he would be punished. The semiretired military surgeon reasoned that as a veteran member of the Communist Party and a doctor exercising his "professional responsibility to protect the health of the people," he had nothing to fear. That assessment might have proved accurate had Jiang not courageously penned a second letter to the party leadership in February--this one denouncing the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. On June 1, on their way to apply for visas to visit...